YOUR FEEDBACK IS NEEDED
Please take the time to review the 2020-2021 Traditional Calendar Drafts. We appreciate you taking the time in providing feedback on your preference of the two options of the 2020-2021 CCS Academic Calendar developed with the input of a committee of CCS educators over the past weeks. The calendar options meet the requirements of recent legislation passed into law by the NC General Assembly. Both calendars have the required start date for students of August 17, 2020.
Please review the calendar options carefully and vote for the option you prefer. A summary for each calendar option is provided at the bottom of the document. You will notice a new type of instructional day (Remote Learning) has been added to both calendars as required by the new law. These are days that students will not physically be in school; however, there will be assignments provided for students to complete. Should significant loss of instructional time occur in the fall semester, high school first semester exams may be moved to January 2020.
The results of this survey will be shared with the Craven County Board of Education as they work to adopt the 2020-2021 CCS Academic Calendar.
THE DEADLINE TO RESPOND TO THIS SURVEY IS FRIDAY, JUNE 12 at 3PM.
CLICK THE LINK TO COMPLETE THE SURVEY:
https://forms.gle/Wo6RHGYDBkNcN1R78
The calendar options are included in the survey and are attached for you to review here:
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Homeless Updates
We need to know about your families that have lost housing due to COVID-19!
Due to COVID-19, some of our families have faced difficult times and may have been evicted or had to move in with family/friends, stay in hotels or even go to one of our homeless shelters. If you become aware of a student that has become “homeless” (living with others due to economic hardship, in a hotel/motel/camper, or in a shelter, etc) please email Debbie Hodges at
debbie.hodges@cravenk12.org
. She will need the name of the student and what their current situation is (hotel, camper, shelter, car, living with others) and the date they became homeless or the date you became aware of their situation. Federal reporting guidelines require us to keep a list of students that become homeless due to this particular event (COVID-19) in addition to our regular homeless annual reporting.
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Parent Phone Numbers and Emails
Teachers - Some of you have obtained more updated phone numbers and email addresses for parents during our remote learning time. Please check Powerschool for your students to see if the phone numbers and email addresses that you have are in PS. If not, send the more recent information to your data manager to update Powerschool.
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Apple Professional Learning
In an effort to keep you informed of new opportunities for learning, here is an update of the upcoming Apple Education Learning Series.
We would like to invite your educators to join Apple for a series of conferences led by our Apple Professional Learning Specialists. Each virtual conference will run for approximately 45 minutes and will provide an opportunity for educators to experience the videos in our Apple Education Learning Series and engage in dialogue with our team
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Tuesday, June 9:
9:00am Central
AssistiveTouch is a built-in accessibility feature that lets you adapt the iPad Multi-Touch screen to your physical needs. In this video, you’ll learn how to customize gestures and make other features accessible with just a touch from the AssistiveTouch menu. Increase productivity with new ways to search, take screenshots, and work with multiple apps.
10:00am Central
This session will help educators learn how to get up and running for remote learning with iPad. We’ll explore ways to access school resources and find Apps that support remote learning. Tips include using built-in iPad features to scan documents and stay organized, using Markup to annotate teacher materials and student work, and getting set up with voice memos, and more.
11:00am
Central
Presenting information in compelling ways is even more important when you’re not able to be face-to-face with your students. In this session we’ll show you how to use the built-in features in iPad to create demos and instructional videos and share them with your colleagues and students. Using Keynote, or any presentation tool, you’ll learn how to record content and create demos on iPad for use with your students.
1:00pm Central
Clips is a free app that lets teachers and students easily create and share fun and engaging videos. We’ll show you how educators can use Clips to create instructional videos for exploring new skills and ideas — and how students can make videos to share what they’ve learned.
1:00pm Central
Nurturing creativity with students helps develop skills needed for lifelong, active learning. In this video, you’ll learn how to engage students in creative learning activities using iPad built-in features like Camera to capture images, and Markup to personify an object or highlight historical clues. Using Pages, students can bring these objects together in a writing assignment or science report and add audio recordings, drawings, and more.
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Tuesday, June 9 Continued:
2:00pm Central
When educators and learners aren’t in the same room, strategies for communication are essential for continuing the learning process and collaborating with colleagues. In this session, you’ll learn how to stay connected, collaborate, and coach your students remotely with tools like Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Notes, FaceTime, Messages, and Voice Memos.
3:00pm Central
Powerful assistive features are built into iPad to support your vision, hearing, motor skills, learning, and literacy. In this video, you’ll learn how features such as Speak Screen, Safari Reader, and Speech Controller enable reading fluency, comprehension, and composition for every learning style.
4:00pm Central
It’s easy to turn traditional worksheets into fun and creative learning assignments. In this session you’ll learn how to take a built-in template in Pages and quickly customize it with placeholders for text, photos, and even a personalized video from you to guide your students. You’ll see how to share this new assignment as a template which lets students easily customize it with their own content.
Wednesday, June 10:
IT Spotlight: Prepare and Personalize Devices for Learners (For IT Staff) -
Register Here
3:00pm Central
Apple tools and services make it easy to manage devices and configure them for remote learning. In this session, IT audiences will learn about essential tasks and resources needed to set up and manage Apple devices. Topics include selecting a deployment model, enrolling devices in a mobile device management solution, and deploying core apps to students.
We will also learn how Apple School Manager works with a mobile device management solution to secure devices, facilitate communication and collaboration, and personalize iPad to support diverse learning styles and requirements.
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Remote Learning Silver Lining Stories is a platform for our
arts educators
to share brief narratives and visual images about the innovative ways students are learning online during the COVID-19 pandemic. These stories can be about everything from engaging projects and creative ways you are using online technology in teaching your content to how the arts are helping support the social and emotional needs of your students. NCDPI Arts Education will share these stories via social media, therefore we will need a media release for any student likeness.
1. Be submitted online using the form below.
Narratives or Visuals (pictures and/or video) may include:
· creative new ways you are using online technology to teach the arts;
· how the arts are helping to support the social and emotional needs of your students;
2. Be no more than 250 words.
3. Include one photograph, video or audio file that represents the story (if possible).
4. Be written in a positive tone, even if you are describing an obstacle or challenge.
5. Highlight those that are impacted and those involved (students, colleagues and administrators).
The Remote Learning Silver Lining Stories submissions will:
• Be reviewed (and possibly edited slightly) by NCDPI Arts Ed staff before posting on the NCDPI Arts Ed website and social media;
• Be posted with media files if available (please be sure photo rights are obtained and necessary credits submitted with the image);
Remote Learning Silver Lining Stories enable our educators to share with each other and the larger North Carolina arts education community the many ways we can deliver excellent standards-driven instruction for our students during this challenging time.
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